In 'The Beginning' ?

[Bristollad]

A quantity is not getting smaller, but our units of measurement, the new decimal numbers, are.

The units of measurement (new decimal numbers?) are simply a means of defining the quantity involved. The quantity does indeed get smaller. In just same way that any quantity can be doubled, any quantity can be halved ad infinitum. It doesn't matter whether that quantity is written as decimal fraction or a vulgar fraction.

[Mantrik]

A quantity is not getting smaller, but our units of measurement, the new decimal numbers, are.

The units of measurement (new decimal numbers?) are simply a means of defining the quantity involved. The quantity does indeed get smaller. In just same way that any quantity can be doubled, any quantity can be halved ad infinitum. It doesn't matter whether that quantity is written as decimal fraction or a vulgar fraction.

So, as we can never multiply enough to reach infinity, we can never actually divide up a quantity enough to reach zero?

[Tirisilex]

I personally believe in a Multiverse of recycling universes. Spread out across the infinite space of infinite Big Bangs possibly with different sets of physics that is probably alien to one another. There never was a beginning nor an end.. Because a New Universe is created every minute but is so Insanely far away the light would never reach another universe. Thats what I believe.

[Bristollad]

A quantity is not getting smaller, but our units of measurement, the new decimal numbers, are.

The units of measurement (new decimal numbers?) are simply a means of defining the quantity involved. The quantity does indeed get smaller. In just same way that any quantity can be doubled, any quantity can be halved ad infinitum. It doesn't matter whether that quantity is written as decimal fraction or a vulgar fraction.

So, as we can never multiply enough to reach infinity, we can never actually divide up a quantity enough to reach zero?

In the same way that when an amount becomes too big to quantify, we say it is infinite, we can say an amount that is too small to differentiate from zero (but is still greater than zero) is infinitesimal

[Mantrik]

infinitesimal

That's the word I was grasping for.

In terms of time per se, we can't really define a beginning or end, but neither can we define a moment or regard any two things as beginning and ending simultaneously. Of course, we live our lives quite easily without having to think of these things, but when people do, they often seem to seek limitations and boundaries.